It really is the name for these wool cakes. This one I bought at De Afstap, yarn shop in Amsterdam. Two ends of yarn have been dyed and wound together. In the middle is a plastic tube, through which you put a knitting needle and with a piece of string you can hang it up, so that you can unwind both ends without making too much of a mess. On the sides are cardboard circles. One of them I took off, because I wanted to read the text on the inside, but that wasn't a good idea: on that side the threads kept falling aff. But in the end I had two neat balls.

I was surprised to see the spirals in my cuff appearing. You don't see much of the pattern because the yarn is a bit more colourful than I expected. Yet I'll knit on, because I rather like the result as it is.

SPF is getting on nicely. Here, half way knitting the third clue, there are over 300 stitches on the needle already, so knitting a row and back takes a while. The many nupps and beads (not yet so many) don't help to speed up things. It resembles bobbin lace. Click on the picture to see more detail, like beads. Yes: you can really see them then!

One of my spinfriends rang me. Her granddaughter had to study bobbin lace for her school, but I was the only person she could think of, who would know anything about that. Granddaught would have to produce a little piece of lace herself, too. Could I show her and teach her? She had a whole afternoon to do that.

So one Mondayafternoon granddaughter and her friend/classmate came over. They had a look at my laces and made a tiny piece in linen stitch.